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March 25, 2015

Wednesday News: Oyster’s new CFO, Goodreads’ new author policy, black authors and self-publishing, and Kindle cover disasters

JanetPublishing Newsauthors / book-covers / children's lit / diversity / Ebooks / Goodreads / Kindle / Oyster / Self-publishing / subscription17 Comments

E-Book Startup Oyster Hires Jeannie Mun As Its First CFO – Jeannie Mun, formerly of MediaMath and Operative, is now CFO of Oyster, which demonstrates the seriousness with which the company is approaching a successful model for the subscription ebook service. That Barry McCarthy, CFO of Netflix, is also going ... more >

February 4, 2015

Wednesday News: new Harper Lee novel, SFWA accepts self-pub & small press members, ALA Youth Media Awards, and double standards for female authors

JanetPublishing NewsCaldecott Medal / children's lit / gender / Harper Collins / Harper Lee / literature / Newbery Medal / Self-publishing / sexism / SFWA / small press publishing9 Comments

Harper Lee, Author of ‘To Kill a Mockingbird,’ Is to Publish a Second Novel – News of the upcoming Harper Lee release burned through the internet yesterday, announced as it was via Lee’s lawyer and literary agent, complete with prepared quote about how happy Lee was to have this book ... more >

January 15, 2015

Thursday News: Publishing and free speech, new Nora Roberts tv series, a reviewer’s manifesto, and lesbian emojis

JanetPublishing Newsbook adaptation / Book Reviews / censorship / children's lit / diversity / emojis / Free Speech / Islam / Judaism / LGBTQIA+ / marketing / Nora-Roberts / television22 Comments

Oxford University Press reportedly barred pigs and anything pork-related from children’s book – Although the headlines for this story are pretty sensationalized, but it’s actually a pretty interesting issue. Tossing aside the usual claims of “political correctness,” the heart of this story is the tension between artistic freedom/free speech and ... more >

December 31, 2014

Wednesday News: The future of online shopping, increasing US literacy, literatures of Africa, and Orwell on empathy and fruit loaf

JanetPublishing NewsAfrica / children's lit / literacy / Literary fiction / non-profits / online retailers / Orwell / recipes / shopping2 Comments

How the e-retailers keep us spending – With another big US shopping day ahead of us (New Year’s Day), this is an interesting piece on how online retailers have been moving in the direction of globalizing local celebrations, holidays, or traditional spending days (e.g. Black Friday) to capture the global ... more >

October 30, 2014

Thursday News: AAP numbers released, Hungary wants to tax the internet, NY court strikes down cyberbullying law, and The Poetry Brothel

JanetPublishing Newsaudiobooks / brothel / children's lit / cyberbullying / Ebooks / First-Amendment / hardcovers / Internet / poetry / publishing / taxesComments Off on Thursday News: AAP numbers released, Hungary wants to tax the internet, NY court strikes down cyberbullying law, and The Poetry Brothel

Children’s fuels 2014 growth in US – The Association of American Publishers have released their numbers regarding what is and isn’t selling in US publishing. In addition to the boom represented by kid lit, audiobooks are on the rise (26.2%) and hardcovers saw a very minor decrease (0.3%). Ebook revenue ... more >

September 5, 2014

Friday News: Twitpic shuts down, Amazon woos kid lit authors, Harper Collins experiments with bundling, and deadmau5 fires back at Disney

JanetPublishing NewsAmazon / applications / children's lit / digital books / Disney / Harper Collins / intellectual property / print books / software / trademark / Twitpic / Twitter9 Comments

Twitpic is shutting down – I am of two minds about this news: first, I’m sad that Twitpic is going away, because it was, for me, one of the easiest to use and least demanding/intrusive applications for use with Twitter. And second, I’m pretty damn curious about what it’s planning ... more >

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